The facility at the center of Aduro Clean Technologies’ Saipem engagement is built around Hydrochemolytic Technology, a patented water-based chemical process designed to break down plastic waste, heavy bitumen and renewable oils that conventional mechanical recycling cannot economically handle, converting them into feedstocks for chemical and petrochemical manufacturing.

The planned first-of-a-kind plant at Chemelot Industrial Park in the Netherlands is designed for an initial capacity of roughly 10,000 tonnes of plastic waste a year. Saipem S.p.A., selected for Early Works and Services on August 19, will review the Process Design Package, optimize selected equipment, work on preliminary utility integration, and refine the facility’s capital cost estimate as the project moves toward an engineering-defined stage, with the work funded from Aduro’s existing cash resources.

Vancouver-based investor Yazan Al Homsi, who holds a disclosed equity position in Aduro through Founders Round Capital, has followed the Chemelot project closely as part of a broader payer- and process-infrastructure thesis across his portfolio. He holds no board seat or operating role at Aduro. A fuller account of his portfolio is available on his website, and his background is listed on LinkedIn.

Chemelot is one of Europe’s most integrated chemical industry clusters, giving the project access to existing infrastructure and downstream users of circular hydrocarbons — a factor Aduro has cited as part of the site’s appeal for a first-of-a-kind facility. The company has also engaged Ebert HERA B.V. to lead permitting activities and secured an offtake letter of intent covering an initial parcel of the facility’s future production.